Excerpted from “10 things Martin Parr can teach you about street photography”:

In a recent Google+ hangouts interview, one of the attendees asked Martin Parr if he could give one piece of advice to aspiring photographers. Put simply he said, “Find the extraordinary in the ordinary”.

One of the beautiful things about street photography is that we don’t need to drive 10,000 miles to take a photo of a double-rainbow in the mountains or something like that. Street photography is all about the everyday people, things, and moments. It is often the most common and mundane things which make the most interesting and meaningful images.

Therefore if you live somewhere which you don’t consider to be the most interesting place and isn’t urban like NYC or Paris- don’t become discouraged. Look for the ordinary things in your everyday life, and shoot what is closest to you.

A piece of advice from Martin Parr: “Change your approach. Consider yourself to be a documentary photographer and take this duty to record your family seriously.”